CMC Heartland Partners donates painting to MSOE
| Published: 03/30/2005 |
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CMC Heartland Partners has donated “Piggybacker,” a painting of its Bensenville yards, to MSOE's Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection.
CMC Chief Executive Officer Lawrence S. Adelson said: “We are happy that this painting of our Bensenville, Illinois, facility has been accepted by the Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection. It is an honor that this donation can join the other depictions of work at this fine institution.”
The painting is some four feet square and is painted in a corporate expressionist style. It shows heavy rail operations at the Milwaukee Road’s Bensenville, Ill., facility. The scene includes workers and enormous rail handling machinery, the “Piggybacker” of its title. The painting is signed “Miller `68.” It was commissioned for the Milwaukee Road’s headquarters in Milwaukee and hung for many years in the president’s office.
MSOE President Dr. Hermann Viets said, “We appreciate that CMC has shown the public spiritedness to bring this fine painting to our collection for our community to enjoy for years to come.”